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All Quotes Collection
"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
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"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
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"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands."
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"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier."
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"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
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"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."
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"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
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"It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly."
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"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
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"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
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"Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation."
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"Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
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"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam."
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"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since."
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"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."
71
"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way."
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"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it."
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"I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to."
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"Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much."
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"It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men."
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"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."
54
"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization."
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"Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?"
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"I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world."
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"Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward."
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"Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment."
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"It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism."
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"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
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"For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth."
45
"American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England."
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"All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise."
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"It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests."
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